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LEGL 5000 Introduction to Legal Studies (3) trusts. Students examine actions based on these areas of law. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. This course provides a background in the American legal system with emphasis on ethics, terminology, and legal analysis. Course LEGL 5480 Criminal Actions (3) content focuses on an overview of substantive areas such as torts, contracts, property, and criminal law. This course is an in-depth study of all facets involving criminal law. Students will study the criminal court system from law LEGL 5100 Jurisprudence (3) enforcement investigations through criminal trials and correctional facilities. Students will also study United States Constitutional Students analyze major philosophies of law, including methods Amendments which deal with criminal law, as well as statutory of justifying legal systems through natural law, legal positivism, laws involving crimes against persons and property. Prerequisite: and sociological jurisprudence. Contemporary writings on modern LEGL 5000. philosophies of law are also examined. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. LEGL 5490 Advanced Topics in Law (3) LEGL 5260 Methods of Legal Research and Writing I (3) Current and significant issues in legal studies are examined. Course content focuses on selected topics, with emphasis given This course is the first in a two-part writing program which is to new and emerging developments in the field. May be repeated designed to develop the legal assistant’s research and writing for credit if content differs. Prerequisites: LEGL 5000 and LEGL skills, including those needed to write legal citations. Methods of 5260. Legal Research and Writing I introduces the student to the skills necessary for identifying, locating, and using legal resources, LEGL 5500 Professional Seminars (1-3) including: primary sources of statutory and case law, secondary authority, and research reference tools commonly located in a Students participate in seminars designed to examine law library which are used to navigate the primary and secondary contemporary issues in legal studies. The professional seminar Course Descriptions sources. In addition, students will be introduced to the process supplements the core and elective courses in the area of legal of computer-aided legal research. This class also explores the studies by focusing on issues of current and special interest. process of legal analysis through the incorporation of the results Course may be repeated for credit if content differs. Graduate of legal research into legal argument and legal memoranda. students may apply a maximum of 3 credit hours of these Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. seminars as electives to meet the credit-hour requirements for graduation. This course may not be completed by directed study. LEGL 5270 Methods of Legal Research and Writing II Prerequisites: LEGL 5000 and LEGL 5260. (3) LEGL 5501 International Trials: An International and This course is a continuation of LEGL 5260. Methods of Legal Informed View (3) Research and Writing II is designed to build upon the research skills learned in Methods of Legal Research and Writing I and This course will utilize the unique function of the Hague as a to enhance the paralegal student’s legal analytical and writing center of international trials by preparing students before they skills. The course includes several legal issue writing projects, at observe the trials and court proceedings to understand the basics least two of which will combine both research and writing skills. of international law and the facts and issues that underpin the Prerequisites: LEGL 5000 and LEGL 5260. trials and related institutions they will observe. The procedural and substantive law that controls trials in the United States and in LEGL 5300 Ethics for the Legal Professional (3) international law will be compared. Because this course depends heavily on the specific trial being conducted at the time of the This course will focus on the ethical and professional course, it is impossible to present definite class agendas. responsibilities facing legal professionals. We will examine ethical considerations such as confidentiality, unauthorized practice LEGL 5502 International Criminal Law: A Human of law, and conflict of interest, as well as the consequences Rights Perspective (3) of unethical behavior. In addition, students will be provided with frameworks for dealing with the moral dilemmas that legal This course will offer a comparison between international law as professionals face. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. viewed by most of Europe and as viewed by the United States. The impact of those two views of international law will be studied LEGL 5400 Anglo-American Legal History (3) both in theory and as they apply to tribunals, governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations that are The student examines the history and development of the Anglo- located in the Hague. American common law. Special topics include sources; procedural and substantive developments; and the roles of courts, lawyers, LEGL 5503 International Issues Related to Women and legislatures, and jurists. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. Children (3) LEGL 5450 American Constitutional Law (3) This course will explore issues relating to women and children Students study legal constitutional principles. Emphasis is from an international perspective. Special attention is directed on access to the courts, growth of federal power under the toward comparing and contrasting law and policy on juvenile Commerce Clause, due process and equal protection, and case delinquency; women, children, and poverty; child labor; child law methodology. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. soldiers; and child maltreatment.

LEGL 5470 Civil Actions (3) LEGL 5504 International Jurisprudence and Law (3) Course content focuses on a variety of civil law areas such as This course will study the historic background of international contracts, torts, evidence, property, corporations, tax, wills, and law and its formation and development, including the formation and enforcement of treaties; the role of the international courts; international human rights and the protection of individuals;

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conflicts in international law; and, if time permits, the law of the LEGL 5800 Computerized Legal Research (3) sea and international terrorism laws. This course will acquaint students with the fundamental concepts LEGL 5505 Constitutional and International Issues: of locating and accessing legal information using computer technology. Prerequisites: LEGL 5000 and LEGL 5260. Human Trafficking & Slavery (3) This course will explore constitutional and human rights LEGL 5850 Advanced Legal Writing (3) issues which arise as individual countries and the international This course is aimed at helping students attain a higher level of community work to address issues and concerns involving slavery legal writing skills by focusing on the intellectual and physical and human trafficking. Topics discussed include: trafficking in discipline involved in creating a good written legal product. The women and children; sexual exploitation; labor exploitation, i.e. course teaches students vital reasoning skills along with detailed domestic slavery, forced labor, bonded labor; racial discrimination; instruction on the strategies students may use to write clearly and refugee issues/status; and other related topics. The mandatory convincingly. Prerequisites: LEGL 5000, LEGL 5260 and LEGL on-site portion of this course is offered in Leiden, the Netherlands. 5270.

LEGL 5506 International Law and the Environment (3) LEGL 5905 Intellectual Property Law for Paralegals (3) This course will explore the development of international law This course is a survey of the four primary areas of intellectual on issues related to environmental concerns, including the property — patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. international lawmaking process, development of treaties and This course will focus on the paralegal’s role in securing and protocols related to regulation of national resources, waste enforcing these rights. The content of this course is appropriate management issues, environmental concerns relating to marine as a general overview for non-specialists, and a foundation environments, laws related to freshwater resources; exchange of course for those who intend to specialize in intellectual property. information among countries, and reporting and monitoring issues. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000.

LEGL 5507 The Hague: Peacemaking Catalyst in LEGL 5925 Patent and Trademark Law for Paralegals International Conflict (3) (3) This course will explore The Hague’s pivotal role in preventing, This is a substantive law course covering the federal patent resolving, and redressing international conflicts, with heavy statute (35 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), the federal trademark statute (15 emphasis on law enforcement and interpretation. Numerous U.S.C. 1051 et seq.), and representative state trademark statutes. law-related institutions that make The Hague their home will This course will follow the process of patenting inventions from be explored, including international courts, international law- prior art searching, to preparing and filing patent applications, enforcement establishments, legal think tanks, international arms- to prosecuting patent applications and post issuance topics. control entities, and dispute resolution organizations. Pertinent Additionally, the course will address the process of selecting documents and analysis by leading experts in the field will be and protecting trademarks including pre-adoption searching, studied, discussed, and analyzed, with an eye toward the future preparation and filing of applications, prosecution of applications, roles these entities may play in peacemaking. and issuance and maintenance of trademark registrations in the U.S. and abroad. The course will focus on the paralegal’s role LEGL 5508 Collision Course: A Critical Approach (3) in obtaining and maintaining patents and trademarks, including This course will lay a foundation for student understanding electronic filings. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. of basic international law principles. In addition to exploring the traditional topics of international law such as sources of LEGL 5945 Copyright and Trade Secret Law for international law, the role of states, and the management of Paralegals (3) international conflict, the course will consider the application This is a substantive law course covering the federal copyright of international law as applied outside of the United States. statute (17 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) and the federal and state statutes Particular emphasis will be placed on the effect of these often governing trade secrets and confidential information. This colliding views on human rights around the world. course will cover copyrightable subject matter, the exclusive LEGL 5550 Paralegal Clinical Studies (3-6) rights afforded by copyright, ownership of copyright, and fair use. This course will cover the preparation and prosecution The internship augments the legal studies curriculum by of applications for copyright registration and federal and state placing the student in a private or public organization under the schemes for protecting and enforcing rights in trade secrets supervision of an appointed internship supervisor. Application and other confidential information. Additionally, this course will for placement should be made a term in advance of enrollment. examine the role of the paralegal in securing and enforcing Prerequisite: Completion of all other required courses in this copyright rights in works of authorship in the U.S. and abroad, and major. the paralegal’s role in securing and enforcing trade secret rights. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. LEGL 5601 Professional Ethics in National Security Law (3) LEGL 5965 Computerized Intellectual Property This course exposes students to ethical codes and standards Research for Paralegals (3) that apply to national security law and challenges students to This is a legal researching and writing skills course that will focus apply them in a variety of professional and employment situations on searching strategies and databases in intellectual property within the field of national security, including law and government. contexts. This course will address both publicly-available and The course primarily focuses on United States' standards while private databases for searching for prior art for patentability acknowledging the transnational nature of national security law. and validity purposes, trademarks and services marks for availability and clearance searches, and legal precedent to

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support application and enforcement efforts. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000.

LEGL 6000 Research and Writing Project (3) The student is expected to synthesize and integrate the learning experiences acquired in legal studies and to evaluate the research and current topics relative to this area of concentration. Techniques used to accomplish these goals may vary. Prerequisite: Completion of all other required courses in this major. Course Descriptions

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